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reflecter

reflecter is the alternative form of reflector.

Meaning of reflector

Noun

reflector (plural reflectors)

  1. Something which reflects heat, light or sound, especially something having a reflecting surface.
    • Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
  2. A reflecting telescope.
  3. A small, often red, reflecting disk on the rear of a vehicle or bicycle that reflects the headlights of other vehicles.
  4. A safety reflector.
  5. One who reflects on something; one who thinks or considers at length.
    • Most reflectors on leadership are comfortable thinking of "ethical" and "unethical" as modifiers of leadership.1993, Robert W. Terry, Authentic Leadership: Courage in Action, page 48
  6. Something that is reflective (indicative) of something else.
    • The biography is an enormously powerful reflector of mainstream values: it is a statement that this person is someone, or did something, worth writing about. Similarly, because the biographer has access to myriads of details about her or his subject, what gets full exposure and what gets swept...1982 August 28, Rob Kaplan, “Gaps in the Glass”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 8

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Forms of reflecter

pluralreflecters

Questions about reflecter

What is reflecter the alternative form of?
Reflecter is the alternative form of reflector.

Words near reflecter in the dictionary

  1. reflected on
  2. reflected upon
  3. reflectedly
  4. reflectedness
  5. reflectent
  6. reflecter
  7. reflecters
  8. reflectest
  9. reflecteth
  10. reflectibility
  11. reflectible

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reflecter (page history and authors); reflector (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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